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Show Electrifying the Farm The business depression has not hampered the farm electrification movement. During the first half of this yeav, 68,532 farms in the United States were electrified, as compared with 48.000 in the same period last year. On June 30, the electric industry served 627,105 farms a gain of 12 per cent in 12 months. In all parts of the nation the demand for farm electrification is rapidly growing and is being satisfied as fast as possible. pos-sible. The ideal we are working toward is that, eventually, every farmer will have ah abundant supply of low priced electric power with which to light his home, milk his cows, churn his butter and do a multitude of ether tasks, great and small. Present Pres-ent statistics show that within the immediate future at least a large minority of farms will have the manifold advantages of power. |